ABB has revealed the Terra 360, a new charging station for electric vehicles with a maximum power of 360 kW that can charge up to four vehicles simultaneously. According to the Swiss-Swedish company, the Terra 360 “enables the fastest charging process on the market”. ABB says the ua fast-charging station can deliver 100km of range […] More…

CATL takes over the Canadian mining company Millennial Lithium and pays 376.8 million Canadian dollars (about €254.5 million) for the acquisition. With the deal, the Chinese battery cell manufacturer secures a long-term supply of lithium. The purchase price for Millennial Lithium corresponds to a price of 3.85 Canadian dollars per share. The competitor Ganfeng Lithium, […] More…

According to a media report, the Tesla factory in Grünheide will receive the long-awaited final overall approval from the responsible Brandenburg State Office for the Environment (LfU). However, there will be strict conditions regarding water and possible accidents. This is reported by the portal Business Insider with reference to several sources from government circles. The […] More…

FAW Jiefang, the commercial vehicle division of the Chinese FAW Group, has established a new business unit for electrified vehicles and presented the plans for this. The new brand will include all ‘New Energy Vehicles’; battery-electric vehicles, hybrids as well as hydrogen-powered vehicles. The company now aims to achieve sales of 120,000 vehicles with New […] More…

Hyundai’s luxury brand Genesis has revealed details of the technology and equipment of the planned GV60 – its first electric model based on the group’s E-GMP platform. The 800-volt electric car will be launched in three variants and will feature a number of technological refinements. A few weeks ago, Genesis had already published first photos […] More…

Audi is recalling 2,303 units of its e-tron electric model worldwide due to problems with the brake booster. The brake booster, ABS and ESP may fail. In Germany, 336 vehicles are likely to be affected, and 38 in the USA. Unlike the series of recalls that recently have been caused by batteries, affecting vehicles around […] More…

Swedish light electric motorbike manufacturer Cake has raised $60 million in fresh capital. Cake plans to use the capital to invest in expanding its product offering and distribution network. The amount is made up of $14 million in convertible bonds and a $46 million financing round. The funding round included “strong support” from current shareholders […] More…

Proterra has announced that Capital Metro in Austin, Texas is purchasing 26 40-foot Proterra ZX5 Max electric transit buses, with an option for another 126 of these buses plus chargers over the next 5 years. The first 26 electric buses should be delivered in 2022. This latest order is Capital Metro’s third and largest procurement […] More…

MAN Truck & Bus is restructuring the services in its MAN eManager control tool that was introduced just under a year ago. The tool is a digital command centre for fleet managers who work with the MAN Lion City E electric bus or the eTGE electric transporter. MAN eManager is based on the cloud-based Rio […] More…

In Italy, the public transport operator TPER (Emilia-Romagna Passenger Transport) has ordered seven Citea SLF-120 Electric buses from VDL Bus & Coach. These are to be deployed in the city of Bologna in 2022. Both parties also want to explore extending the order to up to 20 electric city buses. The order from Bologna is […] More…

Rolls-Royce announced that it will no longer build or sell cars with combustion engines from 2030. The luxury brand, which belongs to BMW, will thus also become a purely electric car manufacturer. Fittingly, Rolls-Royce provided a curt preview of its first electric model. The debut electric car from Rolly-Royce Motor Cars will be called Spectre […] More…

Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer working for Apple, is cooperating with the companies Giga Solar Materials, Long Time Technology and China Steel Chemical to develop anode materials for lithium iron phosphate batteries. The new batteries are to be used for the first time in electric buses from 2023. The planned cooperation between the aforementioned players […] More…

The German-Australian lithium producer Vulcan Energy announces that it has produced lithium hydroxide monohydrate using geothermal energy for the first time. The company also plans to move its planned central processing facility to the Höchst Chemical Park near Frankfurt. Vulcan Energy – more precisely, its German subsidiary Vulkan Energie Ressourcen GmbH – wants to extract […] More…

In the course of a presentation of its current plug-in hybrid models, Volkswagen has given an outlook on the PHEV strategy for the coming years. A new generation of plug-in hybrid drives is expected to be used from 2023. On the one hand, the 1.4 TSI combustion engine used so far will be replaced by […] More…

General Motors has produced the first examples of its BrightDrop EV600 electric delivery vehicle. For the initial small series production, BrightDrop is cooperating with a partner; later, series production is to start in its own factory. Additionally, BrightDrop is introducing a smaller offshoot, the EV410. The EV600 is the young brand’s first electric delivery van. […] More…

Lucid Motors has officially started production of the first customer vehicles of its Air electric sedan at its plant in Casa Grande in the US state of Arizona. Deliveries are scheduled to begin at the end of October. According to the manufacturer, more than 13,000 reservations have been made so far. In the middle of […] More…

Because an estimated 100,000 truck drivers have gone back to where they came from because of Brexit, petrol is becoming increasingly scarce at British petrol stations. Panic buying has been going on for days. Now apparently soldiers are to help deliver the fuel. Prime minister Boris Johnson took to television to calm down the public, […] More…

The Salzburg Aluminium Group (SAG) is developing a cryogenic tank system for liquid hydrogen (LH2) for trucks. Prototyping is to begin in a few months, followed by test phases. Based on the results obtained, SAG wants to produce the LH2 cryo tank in series from 2027. Liquid hydrogen is considered superior to gaseous H2 in […] More…

Hyundai Motor Group is opening the 2021 EV Open Innovation Challenge for startups and entrepreneurs in EV charging and services ready to scale in North America. The program follows the successful completion of the EV & Battery Challenge launched in 2020 and fosters collaboration between startups on various projects related to charging infrastructure and service […] More…

The French Région Sud has commissioned Keolis to operate two sections of its regional transport network in the Alpes-Maritimes region of south-eastern France with buses for eight years from 1 January 2022. Within one year, the bus fleet will be all-electric. The fleet for the two sections includes 120 buses and coaches on 17 routes. […] More…